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JAMES MORRIS WEBB, A. M. 

Evangelist of the Church of God 

(Acts 20-28, Biblical) 



The 
Black Man 



The Father of Civilization 

Proven by Biblical 
History 



AUTHOR: 
James Morris Webb, A.M. 



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PREFACE. 

I have many objects in presenting this 
book 'to the public. 

First: I love my race regardless of the 
prejudice against her, the unenviable posi- 
tion she holds, and the things she is falsely 
said to be guilty of. 

I demonstrate my love for her by launch- 
ing this book before the public as somewhat 
of a defense against the prejudice of anci- 
ent, as well as modern historical writers and 
lecturers, who have misrepresented her, 
and took from her the good deeds and hon- 
ors that are justly due her. 

Secondly : I realize that my race has had 
defenders, and has some now, men of my 
race and men of other races. But I am 
simply presenting this book as an humble 
race defender, in connection with the body 
of race defenders, and if my theory in this 
book is accepted as one of the little fingers 
of this splendid body, I will feel that I have 
accomplished some results and thus por- 
trayed the story of ^'The Widow's Mite" — 
she gave all she had, and I contribute like- 
wise. 

Thirdly: To appreciate my argument, 
the reader had best have a Bible at his fin- 



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ger tips so as to examine my references and 
compare them with my statements, which I 
make wholly and solely upon the authorities 
found in the Bible, which in turn is the 
real and only authority on ancient history 
(again my authority is not inspired in the 
slightest degree with malice or hatred for 
the white race). My profession as a Minis- 
ter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ would not 
permit me to defend in the name of justice, 
harboring malice and hatred or any ill feel- 
ing toward my white brethren. I am acting 
with that meek and humble spirit and with 
a gigantic pride in my race, which I hope, 
pleases God. 

J. M. WEBB. 



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ABRAHAM LINCOLN FREDERICK DOUGLAS 

DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON 



THREE OF THE GREATEST MEN 
IN AMERICAN HISTORY 

Frederick Douglas, the tliimder-bolt, 
whost' mighty peals of thunder awoke the 
sympathy of the Christian men and women 
of this country in behalf of his enslaved and 
suffering people. 

Abraham Lincoln, the flash of lightning, 
who, like a streak of light from Heaven giv- 
ing hope to the black people, struck the 
shackles from their hands and left them 
lying shattered at their feet. 

Dr. Booker T, Washington, who is nobly 
directing a never-to-be-forgotten battle for 
that moral and industrial education, which 
Douglas and Lincoln made it possible for 
them to obtain. 



INTRODUCTION 



THE Bible gives the first and only 
true account of the origin of man- 
kind. It is the only book contain- 
ing an accurate record of the progress of 
man toward civilization, and it is the indis- 
pensable reference of all searchers after the 
real facts of the birth of humanity and its 
progress toward the civilization of today; 
beginning with his creation, it is the only 
authentic record of man ; authentic because 
it is first hand, not a copy of something else 
or a scientific or literary review, but a dis- 
passionate record of man's creation and 
progress, untrimmed, unshaped and un- 
varnished, to suit prejudice. It would not 
be a complete record if it did not show with 
the rest of them the origin of the black man 
and ''Woe for all these pinnacle thieves"— 
it shows that he, the "black man" is the 
''father of civilization." 

The black man has been misrepresented 
by prejudiced historians and lecturers. It 
has been and is now quoted that Ham, the 
father of the black man, was cursed by his 
father, Noah. Now, in regard to this inci- 



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dent let us take the Biblical record for it, 
and anyone not totally blind with prejudice 
will be convinced by reading in the Book of 
Genesis the 9th Chapter from the 20th to 
the 27th verse inclusive, that Noah did not, 
"for he could not curse" Ham, although 
he did in a fit of intoxication pronounce a 
curse on Canaan, the son of Ham, In pass- 
ing, I might mention that Canaan was 
never inconvenienced by the curse of Noah, 
because he was the Father of seven pros- 
perous nations, foremost among them were 
the Canaanites, Phoenicians and Sidonians. 
The Sidonians sprang from Sidon, who was 
the first son of Canaan, according to Gen- 
esis 10th Chapter 15th verse. These same 
Sidonians are the men "descended from 
black men" whom Solomon ordered Hiram 
of Tyre to engage to do the skilled hewing 
and designing of the timber work on Solo- 
mon's temple— Solomon declaring that 
these Sidonians, "black men" were the only 
men possessed with anywhere near sufficient 
skill to take charge of and successfully com 
plete the artistic timber work on "His 
Solomon's temple. First Kings 5th Chapter 
6th verse speaks very plainly of this fact. 
Solomon knew the black race was a supe- 
rior, not an inferior race. He married 
Pharoah's daughter— see 1st Kings, 3rd 



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Chapter 1st verse; 7th Chapter 8th verse, 
also the 9th Chapter and 16th verse. Solo- 
mon's wife might have been of as dark skin 
or even as black as he was, for history 
shows that Egypt had two full blooded 
Ethiopian Pharoahs just before and during 
the reign of Solomon, according to Hero- 
dotus, the names of these two Ethiopians 
were Sabaco or "Sebichos" and Sethos, so 
Solom^on surely got an Ethiopian ''Negro 
or black" woman for a wife. This natural- 
ly increased the proportion of Negro blood 
in the veins of the future King of the Jews. 
Viewing the progress of the immediate de- 
scendants of Ham we learn that a curse 
laid upon one by a mortal of that day was 
as foolish and ineffective as it is in this, the 
story about this curse, also the story of the 
black man who contended that a black skin 
and woolly hair is a disgrace, has, accord- 
ing to the Bible, no foundation. Speaking 
of black skin, the greatest brain work and \ 
wisdom ever given to this world was given ' 
by men of black skins, or at least in whose 
veins the greatest portion of blood was j 
Ethiopian or Negro blood. As to this as- 
sertion and King Solomon, see ''Songs of 
Solomon 1st Chapter 6th verse." Solo- 
mon's dark skin should cause no surprise, 
because his mother, Hittite, was also the 



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widow of Uriah (see 2nd Samuels 12th 
Chapter 9th and 10th verses). The Hittites 
are the descendants of Heth and Heth was 
the second son of Canaan (see Genesis 10th 
Chapter 15th verse). 

As to the woolly hair, Jesus, the Blessed 
Saviour of Mankind, will have His head 
covered with woolly hair when he comes to 
judge the world, (Daniel 7th Chapter 9th 
and 10th verses). Now, if Daniel's proph- 
ecy is true that when Christ left this earth 
he had woolly hair, he naturally will return 
with woolly hair, and the pictures of Him 
today are an erroneous conception of Him, 
by the artists. This grand old book the 
Bible, does not show that God ever turned 
a man black to disgrace him for his sins, or 
anything else, but this same Bible does 
show that God's power did turn a man 
white to disgrace him because of his sins, 
and said that his seed would be likewise for- 
ever. Facts are stubborn things and often 
very disagreeable, sometimes even sicken- 
ing, and by reading carefullv the 5th Chap- 
ter of the 2nd Kings, 25th,^ 26th and 27th 
verses, many of our highly civilized breth- 
ren "whose ancient ancestors disgraced 
them" will suffer an alarming fit of nausea. 
Among the many low cowardly things that 



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have been said and done against the Negro 
during this Christian era, one poor be- 
nighted individual published a ''joke" in 
book form, in which he claims that, the 
Negro is a beast, the poor fellow tries to be 
serious, and no doubt thinks he is otfering 
at least some proof of his assertion. The 
poor fellow of course, receives some syra- 
path}^, and would no doubt receive as much 
as any of the rest of his class, were it not 
for the fact that he holds a Professorship 
in one of our leading American Christian 
Universities, Of course the disgust, if any, 
is felt for those responsible for placing the 
poor devil in such a position, and the real 
and well placed sympathy is for the stu- 
dent, who must suffer because of this fel- 
low. The fact remains, however, that re- 
gardless of what has been said and done 
against the Negro and of whatever might 
be said or done against him in future, he is 
the ONLY man who can trace himself back 
through the ages to his origin, and find 
monumental evidence of his unequaled 
greatness, his prowess, the laurels and 
great honors he won, the things he created 
and perfected which have a direct influence 
on our civilization of today. 

The "black man" I boldly assert ''was 
the Father of civilization," born in the land 



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of Egypt, and the different branches of 
Science and Art were simply transmitted to 
other races, which, as the ages have rolled 
by have only been enlarged and to some 
extent improved upon. Even the modern 
American Negro has proven that he is or- 
iginal, for instance— as a Tonsorial Artist 
he has no superiors and no Negro was ever 
known to enter a "Barber College" to learn 
the trade. Negroes inlierit the sweetest, 
most musical voices, and if you have not 
heard a Negro quartette or chorus after 
they have arranged the harmony of a piece 
they are to sing, you have not heard what 
is best and sweetest in vocal music. As in- 
strumentalists "not forgetting the many 
others" I simply mention Blind Tom, and 
Blind Boone, the fame of these two men 
needs no comment. They only displayed 
that talent handed down to them through 
centuries by their black ancestors. As for 
the Negro being original, why the Negro 
has given great America the only claim she 
ever did or ever will have to a National 
music. 

/ God honored the black man by allowing 
some of his Ethiopian blood to flow in the 
veins of His only Son Jesus Christ, and I 
unhesitatingly assert that Jesus would in 



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America be classed a NEGRO. I make this 
assertion only on the authority of the Bible, 
according to which Jesus was born out of 
the tribe of Judah. Judah had only five 
children and they were males, (1st Chron. 
2nd ch. and 4th v.), three by his first wife 
and two by his second wife (1st Chron. 2nd 
ch. Srd and 4th vs.), and both of his wives 
were descendants of Canaan, a black man 
who was the son of Ham (Genesis 10th ch. 
6th v.). Tamar, Judah 's second wife, bore 
him two of these sons whose names were 
Phares and Zarah (1st Chron. 2nd ch. 
and 4th v.), these two names appear in 
the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Book 
of Matthew (1st Chapter Srd verse), so it 
is no trouble to see that Judah of whom 
Christ was to come, started out by present- 
ing to the world children of Canaanite wo- 
men who were Hamite descendants. Now, 
Virgin Mary, of whom Christ was born was 
beyond all doubt a woman out of the tribe 
of Judah, and every Bible reference pro- 
claims that Jesus was to spring from this 
tribe of Judah (Genesis 49-10, Heb. 7-14, 
Rev. 5-5th). Our beloved St. Paul tells 
us in (Romans 1-3) that Jesus was of the 
seed of David according to the flesh. David 
is the 10th man named from Judah in the 
genealogj^ of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1st 

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Chapter, 3rd, 4tb, 5th and 6th verses). 
Added to this David's great, great grand- 
father "Booz" was born of the woman Ra- 
hab, who was a direct descendant of Ham 
(Matthew 1st Chapter 5th verse). This 
also shows that David, one of God's great- 
est soldiers, was one who most successfully 
led his people and one who had Negro blood 
in his veins. Bible history is full of honors 
for the Black Man, Jethro the Ethiopian or 
Negro father-in-law of Moses, who was the 
author who first employed that, which is 
today, our judicial system, considerably 
twisted and revised to meet the changing 
conditions of civilization (Exodus 18th 
Chapter). This chapter tells of Jethro 's 
visit to Moses, and how he gave Moses 
the foundation of what is today our 
system of graded courts for pronouncing 
judgments. Again Moses "The Hebrew 
Emancipator" was named by a black wo- 
man "Pharoah's daughter"— she said she 
called him Moses because she drew him out 
of the water (Exodus 2-10) and besides 
black men educated Moses. At any rate he 
received what education he had in the 
schools of the black people of Egypt (Acts 
7th 22nd), so there is nothing remarkable 
in the fact that Dr. Booker T. Washington, 
W. E. B. DuBois, W. S. Scarborough and 



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many other Negro or black men occupy 
places among the foremost and most emi- 
nent educators of the world, and why should 
they not I They are descended from fathers 
who ruled Egypt centuries ago and with 
their great wisdom layed the foundation of 
learning. 



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BISHOP H. M. TURNFR. D.D., L.L.D. 

The Most Fearless Defender the Afro-Americans Have 



RTSHOP H. M. TURNER, D.I)., L.L.D.. 

Bishop H. M. Turner, born at Newbury, 
South Carolina, February 1st, 1833, is 
the senior Bishop of the A. M. E. Church. 
He has been Bishop for thirty-one years, 
and is quoted as the walking encyclo- 
l)edia of Methodism, and for this cause 
the hist general conference that con- 
vened at Norfolk, Va., on May, 1908, voted 
nnanimously for the good Bisho]) to be the 
liistorian of the African-Methodist Episco- 
l)al Church. It is to be remembered that 
F^isho]) Turner was the first colored man to 
be a connnissioned officer in the United 
States Army, which appointment he re- 
ceived from President Lincoln. Tlie Bishoj) 
was twice a member of the Georgia Leofis- 
lature, and also the first of his church to be 
elected Bishoj) to Africa. 



THE BLACK MAN 



FIRST CHAPTER. 

ii^ m A HAT time changes all things" is a 
I saying so old and so true as to ad- 
mit of no argument. It is exempli- 
fied in so many different ways as to require 
no comment, and yet when we hear the 
phrase used glibly and thoughtlessly, every 
day, it is but natural to wonder if the one 
who uses it realizes what he is saying, or 
rather, if he knows what those few common- 
place words mean, when used to form that 
sentence. 

It is a foregone conclusion that he does 
not. He never stopped, "he, of this en- 
lightened age, I mean," long enough to 
examine even a little of the abundance of 
indisputable proof that the saying ''Time 
changes all things" applies to things and 
conditions, seldom if ever present, to his 
own narrow mind, and far away and be- 
yond even his meaner and low prejudiced 
influence. If he did, his retrospective mood, 
would, before carrying him back to the very 
beginning, suffer something of a shock, and 
his attitude would change. Instead of de- 
lighting in history, modern, medieval and 

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ancient, his attitude would change so notice- 
ably that an observer would imagine that 
his only interest was in tearing down and 
falsifying facts, and concealing records that 
he could not falsify. When we hear or read 
the sayings of some of our ''misnamed" 
great men, but in reality disgustingly con- 
spicuous public figures, we are fully justi- 
fied in making the charge of falsifying and 
concealing such facts as they are not really 
ignorant of. One of these conspicuous pub- 
lic characters delights in making the asser- 
tion that the Hamite Ethiopian or Negro 
never amounted to anything, or possessed 
anything, never occupied an eminence, save 
to which the Semitic or white man had 
dragged or driven him. up to. If ignorance 
alone was responsible for this glaring false- 
hood, a great deal of sympathy would go 
out to those who make the statement as well 
as those who believe it to be true because of 
their ignorance. As harsh as it may seem 
sympathy would be wasted for a great deal 
of the self asserted enlightenment of today 
is but egotism. Much of the so-called wis- 
dom is self praise for successfully conceal- 
ing, or at least surrounding historical facts 
with such mystery as to place the descend- 
ants of Shem upon an eminence which is 
not justly his and makes him in his own 

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opinion appear much larger than what he 
really is. And yet with all the egotism, 
some knowledge of the true origin of man- 
kind exists, and it is this knowledge that 
causes the fasifying and hiding as much 
as possible the true historical records, es- 
pecially of the black man. It cannot be said 
that the learned historical writers, the great 
Divines, Theological students and lecturers 
of todaj" are ignorant of the history of 
Ham, the son of Noah, and his descendants, 
such as Nimrod, the founder of the great 
ancient city of Babylon, and also Menes 
the first King of Egypt and the founder of 
the great ancient city of Memphis. 

Ridpath says that the traditions of an- 
tiquity points to Memphis and Babylon as 
the fountains of human wisdom. If those 
above-named are ignorant of the history of 
the last-named, they are doing the world a 
great injustice in assuming the position of 
teacher and leader. If they are familiar 
with the history of the races and the deeds 
of men, they will no doubt have for them 
and their kind good and sufficient reasons 
for making false and misleading statements 
as to some historical records, and totally 
forgetting or demeaning others. 

An early Queen of Egypt was a de- 
scendant of the Ethiopian or Negro race. 

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This is conceded by some of the modern 
writers ; some of them going so far as to 
say that her skin was very black, and a few 
of them acknowledge that it was this black 
queen who placed the first fleet of war ships 
on the river Nile. They have no doubt 
traced this woman back to where they are 
satisfied that she was descended in a direct 
lineal line from Zipporah, the black and 
Ethiopian wife of Moses. We read very 
little of these two women, because modern 
writers seek to obscure them, and our min- 
isters of the gospel never preach or lecture 
on that part of the Bible in which they are 
m.entioned. WHY! Because, if they do 
they must give credit to black people. In 
this connection, I do not speak of Biblical 
history only. Were it not for the fact that 
the dimensions of this book would be ex- 
tended far beyond what was intended, I 
could begin even with Hannibal, the Car- 
thagenian General, and record the accom- 
plishments of black men without the inter- 
vening of any long periods of time, down 
to the time of Alexander Dumas, Toussant 
L 'Overture, and Alexander Sergievitch 
Pouskin, Russo-African poet. I could do 
more, I could come into the borders of this 
Republic and beginning with Crispus Octi- 
kus, or Alexander Hamilton— record the 

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accomplishments of these same black de- 
scendants of Ham, down to this day. This 
modern record would contain many refer- 
ences to both the war of Independence and 
the war of the Rebellion. It would also men- 
tion a great many black men-who can never 
forget El Caney and San Juan Hill. Be- 
sides the heroes of war, modern history is 
replete with the names of black men famous 
in peace for their accomplishments in sci- 
ence and letters of art. Space will not per- 
mit me to dwell upon these men and their 
accomplishments and the towering ob- 
stacles in spite of which they succeeded. 
I could not fail, however, to mention Fred- 
erick Douglas who was one of the greatest 
statesmen America ever had, even though 
he was born a slave. Dr. Booker T. Wash- 
ington was also born a slave, and is one of 
the greatest educators the world has ever 
known. As to the many other great things 
black men have done and are doing, I can- 
not fail to mention the north pole, for, if 
human beings have stood on the spot 
claimed as the north pole, the black man 
was preceded by no one. I speak of Mr. 
Matt Henson, the Negro, who, if indeed, the 
pole ever was reached, was one of the first 
of the only two "to date" to reach it. 



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PROF. W. S. SCARBOROUGH 



Prof. W. S. Scarboroiigli is head of the 
C'lassieal Department of Wilberforce Uni- 
versity of Ohio, and Vice-President of t!ie 
same institution. He, too, is a great writer 
in defense of the Afro- American race. Here 
are some of his remarks in his master-piece, 
' ' Race Integrity " : (See next page. ) 



"The truth is that the term 'Caucasian' 
has little or no meaning as it is now used. 
The word itself is a conventional term given 
at tlie first by Blumenbach to designate 
what he considered the highest type of the 
human family, shown by a skull from 
]\lount Caucasus. When we attempt to 
trace those who would claim the name as an 
expression of their superiority we find the 
type has disappeared. There is no pure 
specimen now in existence. And if we ask 
what is 'white' we can only say, 'that it is 
a term used to desianate the absence of 
color' — that is all, and no sign whatever of 
'race integrity.' We have already indicated 
that science and investigation point to the 
fact that primitive man was not white. It 
is no new theory, but it has seemed con- 
venient for the Saxon to let it rest as much 
PS possible in discrete oblivion. Bishop) H. 
M. Turner of the African Methodist Epis- 
co])ct1 church has often promulgated it in his 
own inimitable way, and Moncure D. Con- 
way has also declared that the white people 
of the world today are onlv a reflex le^n'osy 
and that the natural color is brown or 
black." 



SECOND CHAPTER. 



HIS FIRST HOME 



God but faintly revealed the puzzle of 
civilization to Noab and his three sons, 
Shem, Ham and Japhet (Genesis 9th Chap- 
ter 1st seven verses), and it became their 
duty to start to work on the first moves of 
the puzzle, as well as to create nations. He, 
who would begin from the first, moves and 
works the matter out to perfection. 

Ham, the father of the black man, lo- 
cated in Africa. Africa was his homestead, 
so to speak. David, the Psalmist, credited 
Ham with this territory in the 105th Psalm 
23rd and 27th verses, and also in the 106th 
Psalm 22nd verse. Now, if this is not true, 
and we reject it on the ground of not being 
sufficient proof of the black man's first and 
original home, we can on quite as good 
ground reject any and every other part of 
the Bible, for what I here state is no wild 
imagination, but FACTS taken from the 
Bible. 

Cush, Mizriam, Phut and Canaan were 
the first sons of Ham (Genesis 10th Chap- 

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ter, 6th verse), and these four sons includ- 
ing Nimrod, the grandson of Ham, were the 
first to start work on the problem of civili- 
zation; in a word they were the pioneers 
and the very pillars of civilized govern- 
ments. 

Cush located in South Egypt on the River 
Nile. He became the father of the Ethio- 
pians as well as the father of the Cushites 
through Nimrod who located on the South- 
ern part of the Euphrates River. It is to 
be remembered that Nimrod is the founder 
of the Babylonian kingdom (Genesis 10th 
Chapter, 10th verse.) Mizriam located on 
the upper part of the River Nile, and he 
became the father of the Egyptians. Phut 
located in the Northern part of Africa. 
Canaan located in the land known as 
the old Palestine country, which is mod- 
ern Turkey. Canaan became the father of 
the Canaanites (Genesis 10th Chapter, 15th, 
16th, 17th, 18th and 19th verses). Accord- 
ing to the Bible the above is the exact loca- 
tion of the first sons of Ham, and the ques- 
tion which naturally follows is, "Was civi- 
lization born in their land and given birth 
by Ham's first offspring?" It is conceded 
by John Clark Ridpath and a few other 
writers on ancient history that the Egyp- 
tians were the fathers of civilization, ac- 



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cording to the chronology of Manetho, an 
Egyptian priest. Egypt was founded in 
the year B. C. 3892, and Menes was the first 
mortal King. The all important question 
now arises, "Were the Egyptians descend- 
ants of black men, or were they descendants 
of white men? Were they descendants of 
Ham or Shem!" It is well known that stu- 
dents claim to he divided in their opinion as 
to the original stock from which the ancient 
Egyptians came. Ridpath, among others, 
says they were neither Semitic nor Negro, 
but concludes his remarks on the origin of 
the Egyptians by saying that the ancient 
Egyptians were considered a branch of that 
part of the Cushite family, which settled in 
Asia. Probably the little matter of the 
Cushites being the grand-children of Ham 
slipped Eidpath 's mind, else his statements 
would not have been so conflicting, because 
he just says that they were not Negroes, but 
ends his argument by saying that they were 
a branch of the Cushite family of Asia. 

It requires no laborious research to es- 
tablish the facts that Cush was the father 
of all Cushite nations. He was also the first 
son of Ham (Genesis 10th Chapter, 6th 
verse). Now then, if the Ethiopians and all 
other Cushite nations who sprang from this 
first son of Ham were not Negroes, will 

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some of our historians omit the word 
' ' probably, ' ' so much used by them, and say 
what they were. It is fair to assume tliat 
with their boasted intelligence and superior 
brain power, by this time they would have 
been able to search out and connect at least 
some of the many facts, and plain, indis- 
putable records in the Bible which leaves 
no room for doubt or "probably." 

We learn from the Bible that Ham is the 
father of the African family ; the Ethiopian 
is the darkest or blackest tribe of the Ham- 
ites. Cush was the founder or father of this 
tribe. Moses selected his wife from this 
black or Ethiopian tribe (Numbers 12th 
Chapter, 1st verse). It must be plain to 
any one who will read the parts referred 
to in the Bible, that Eidpath's contention 
that the Egyptians sprang from the Cush- 
ites was the wrong avenue to escape 
the blood of the Negro, or their rela- 
tion to the black man's family. I believe, 
however, that Eidpath wrote in good 
faith for the majority of the historical wri- 
ters claim that the Egyptians descended 
from a white race, notwithstanding they 
admit that the Old Testament gives the 
truest, the most complete and reliable rec- 
ord on the origin of the Egyptians of any 
other book, so it is not unnatural to believe 



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that their opinions are influenced by racial 
prejudice. 

Now it is true that the Bible contains the 
only authentic, and certainly the most anc- 
ient record of not only the Egyptians, but 
of all mankind, and I CAN and will 
PROVE by it that the Egyptian-Hamite 
— sprang from Mizriam. 

According to the Biblical Gazette, the 
word ''Egypt" is derived from the word 
Mizriam, and this word ''Mizriam" was the 
name of one of the first sons of Ham (Gen- 
esis 10th Chapter, 6th verse). By the word 
"Egypt" being coined from the word 
"Mizriam," it strengthens my contention 
that the Egyptian was descended from 
the black man. I will now dig down 
further into the rich earth of proof 
for more enlightenment out of the 
Book of Truth. By viewing the ancient 
Bible map of Africa and Asia, which 
map can be found in the back of the New 
Testament, one can readily pick out the 
spots upon which Shem, Ham and Japheth 
first located. You will notice that Mizriam, 
the second son of Ham, and the accredited 
father of the Egyptians located on the very 
spot, so to speak, where the great City of 
Memphis was built by Menes, the first King 
of Egypt. Again you will notice that all 

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the names within African borders are 
names of the sons of Ham, Shem and his 
offspring, located in Asia. Perhaps a bet- 
ter way to locate Ham, Shem and Japheth 
and their first offspring is first to read the 
lOtli and 11th Chapters of Genesis, then 
locate their names on the map, and it will 
be seen that not a Shemite, or white man, 
originally located in Africa. All of the 
white men located in Asia, and according to 
the Bible white men never began to travel 
in Africa until Abraham's time, B. C. 1921. 
The Egyptians lived in a high state of civi- 
lization near 2,000 years before Abraham's 
first visit to Egypt, and the appearance of 
white people was a circus and a curiosity to 
the black people. Abraham realized this 
fact and commanded his wife to represent 
herself as his sister, because as he said, 
"she was fair to look upon," white (Gen- 
esis 12th Chapter, 11th, 12th and 13th ver- 
ses). This would indicate that the Egyp- 
tians were not white, and I will say without 
fear of my assertion being disproven, that 
until after the time of Abraham, the Egyp- 
tians were a simon pure black race. Shortly 
after Abraham's visit, the Shemitic or 
white travellers began to pour into Egypt 
to such an extent that the Egyptians began 
inter-marrying with them, and of course. 



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this inter-marrying had its effect of con- 
taminating the pure Negro blood, and this 
inter-marrying was the cause of the black 
man, or full blooded Egj'ptian losing the 
power of control in the Kingdom. In other 
words— this is the loop through which the 
Shepherd or white or Shemitic kings slip- 
ped through and took possession of the 
Egyptian kingdom. 



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DR. W. E. BURGHARDT DUBOIS 



Dr. W. E. Biirgliardt DiiBois is the 
most scholarly speaker and writer of 
the Afro-Ameriean race. He is the au- 
thor of the book ''Souls of Black Folk," 
which is a marvellous book. On the 
following page are some of the phrases 
from his famous address to the So- 
cial Study Clubs of Chicago University, 



February 13tli, 1907, on Education and 
Civilization: 

"The doing of the world's work is a great 
duty and a great jirivilege. It is a thing not 
to be aimed at but to be aimed beyond. Just 
so soon as a nation or a country can put its 
foot upon this satisfaction of the lower 
wants and step ujjward to the greater aspi- 
rations of human brotherhood and the 
broader ideals of civilization, just so soon 
the real building of civilization begins. It 
seems to me, therefore, that the students of 
Chicago University and they that teach 
them, ought especially, on every occasion to 
impress this broader aspect of the race 
problem. That instead of putting it in its 
narrower, nastier channel, instead of stoop- 
ing to listen to men, who themselves repre- 
sent what is lowest and least in our national 
organization, that you should strive in every 
way to realize yourselves and to show oth- 
ers that this great broad question of hu- 
manity is not a ([uestion of petty crime, not 
a question of so many bales of cotton, not a 
question even of mere industrial develo])- 
nient, but is a question of human aspiration, 
and that if here in America, on the very 
fore front of present advance, it is possible 
to murder the as])iration of 10,0()0,00() of 
men, then America is not yet civilized." 



THIRD CHAPTER. 



HIS RULE IN EGYPT 



Dr. Leonliard Sclimitz, Ph. D., LL. D., 
F. R., S. E., says in his work on ancient 
Egyptian history, that these Hyksos or 
Shepherd Kings were Semite people. 
''White," of course, and they comprised 
the 15th, 16th and 17th dynasties, which 
covered 511 years. Now, during this per- 
iod, Jacob and his twelve sons and their 
families moved from Canaan to Egypt, and 
other Semite or whites from Asia did like- 
wise, because the white man had begun to 
rule Egypt. At the 18th Dynasty, however, 
fortune turned against the white rulers of 
Egypt, and the black men or the Negroes 
regained possession of their country, and 
banished the whites from their land, except 
the Jews, whom they held as slaves. They 
reorganized the Kingdom with their own 
blood, ''the blood of the Negro." Aahmas 
was the first King after the whites were 
driven out, and his wife was Nefruari, the 
Ethiopian Princess, greatly celebrated for 
her dusky charms, her wealth and her ac- 

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complishments. The beginning of this re- 
organization of a period is recorded in the 
1st Chapter of the Book of Exodus, which 
shows that at the beginning of the slavery 
of the Jews, God told Abraham that his 
people would be held in bondage in Egj-pt 
for 400 years (Genesis 15th Chapter, 13th 
verse) . Those 400 years marked the period 
of Egj^pt's most rapid and substantial pro- 
gress, as Dr. Schmitz says in writing on 
ancient Egyptian history, those years were 
the most brilliant in Egypt's record, and 
the period at which her art reached its high- 
est point. It is but reasonable to suppose 
this to have been so, for the Shepherd, or 
"white Kings" had destroyed all of the 
former brilliancy of Egypt, and did not 
because they could not do anything to re- 
place or imitate its grandeur or beauty. 
The black people when they regained pos- 
session of their Kingdom and again began 
to rule, made slaves of the Jews and com- 
pelled them to do all the heavy, dirty, un- 
skilled labor, such as carrying bricks and 
mortar and working in the field (Exodus 
1st Chapter, 13th and 14th verses). While 
the Egyptians turned their attention to sci- 
ence and art and reorganizing and drilling 
their army, so as to be able to protect their 
country against all nations. As Dr. Schmitz 

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says, the Eastern boundaries of Egypt were 
well protected by strong fortresses. This 
is but natural, because on the East, the Se- 
mitic or white races reigned, and no doubt 
they were unfriendly to the Egyptians, or 
"black" people, because they had expelled 
the Shepherd or "white" Kings from their 
land. Now, when the Egyptians had at- 
tained ' ' in that Age ' ' to the highest degree 
of intelligence and wisdom, and were pos- 
sessed of the greatest human power, God 
deemed it wise to make His own Infinite 
wisdom and power felt over that of human 
wisdom and power, by using Moses as an 
instrument to knock at the door of the 
Egyptian government and ask for the re- 
lease of the enslaved Jews. Moses did not 
appear in Egypt by any human authority, 
or power, but by the authority and the 
power of God, for it would have been use- 
less for not only Moses, but for any nation 
or number of nations to approach Egypt 
with hostile intentions, without God, be- 
cause Egypt with her wisdom and power 
had the world at her mercy. There it re- 
quired God with His immeasurable wisdom 
and power to overcome the wisdom and 
power of these black Egyptians. The evi- 
dence of God's power was displayed to the 
"Pharoah Meneptah," who is generally 



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conceded to be the "Pharoah of the Exo- 
dus," by His, "God's" instruments, Moses 
and Aaron who were to appear before the 
Pharoah and cast down their rods which 
turned to serpents (Exodus 7th Chapter, 
10th verse). When they had cast down their 
rods before Pharoah, and they turned to 
serpents, Pharoah called the wise men, or 
magicians of Egypt with their enchant- 
ments, and they cast down their rods which 
also became serpents (Exodus 7th Chapter, 
11th and 12th verses). This was the per- 
forming of two miracles, one by God's 
power, and one by human power. This 
vieing with God, though only for an in- 
stance of time is what no white man has 
had the power to do since his creation. But, 
however, God, in order to demonstrate His 
supreme power, caused the serpents trans- 
formed from the rods of Moses and Aaron 
to swallow the serpents transformed from 
the rods of Pharoah 's or Egypt's wise men 
(Exodus 7-12). This rod and serpent inci- 
dent was the beginning of a series of plague 
miracles (read the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th 
Chapters of Exodus), which wrecked the 
Egyptians' or black man's kingdom, and 
also destroyed that great power which he 
had over all other nations and released the 
Jews from slavery. 

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The black man 's power, as the first power 
among the nations had now begun to decay, 
and as the black race began to die, as a 
power among nations, the white race began 
to rise to where it had never been before, 
but this was 2,500 years after the black man 
had worked out all the problems of civili- 
zation. 

In reading Revelation, 13th Chapter, 11th 
verse, of St. John, the Divine, I am very 
much impressed by the description of one 
of his revelations which God unfolded to 
him, and which he describes as follows : 

''I behold another beast coming up out 
of the earth and he had two horns, like 
lamb's, and he spake as a dragon." Now, 
to my mind, the foregoing vision of St. 
John the Divine, was this very country, the 
United States of America, revealed to him 
ages ago before this country was discovered 
and named, the two horns I interpret to be 
the two great political parties, that have 
done so much to corrupt this Government 
and misrule its people from their infancy 
to the present day. Again, the American 
Government spake like a dragon when it 
permitted slavery to exist, especially when 
its Constitution says ''That ALL MEN 
WERE BORN FREE AND EQUAL." 

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Now, concerning the creating and in- 
thralling of nations, their rise and fall, that 
is the will and tlie work of God. (75th 
Psalms, 6th and 7th verses.) (Jeremiah, 
27th and 5th verses.) (Daniel. 2nd Chap- 
ter, 21st verse.) (Daniel, 4th Chapter, 17th 
verse.) 

So, since it is true that the black man is 
the father of civilization, it is jnst as true 
that the white man is now at the helm, and 
the big "I AM" of the civilized world. But 
the fact remains that he took his civilization 
and his position after the black man had 
created it, and passed from the stage of 
action, just as the white man must do at 
God's own appointed time, to make room 
for some other race, probably the yellow 
race, Chinese or Japanese. David, the 
Psalmist, said: ''Egypt was the land of 
the black m^an— Ham not Shem, the white 
man," and he further said that the Taber- 
nacles which were the houses and dwellings 
from the lowest to the King's palaces were 
Ham's, and not Shem's, the white man— 
(Psalms, 106th Chapter, 22nd verse; 105th 
Chapter, 23rd to 27th verse ; 78th Chapter, 
51st verse). 

It is easy to understand why the Negro 
or black man is not identified with his 
Egyptian brother; that reason is seldom 

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honestly and earnestly sought for. The 
reason is— that the historians, with a very 
few exceptions, write from a prejudiced 
standpoint, together with the fact that they 
do not give credit to the Old Testament, if 
indeed, they study it at all, especially that 
part of it which is the most ancient, and 
beyond all shadow of a doubt the first and 
only TRUE account of the origin of man- 
kind it is easy to understand. 

It is impossible for God to forget that 
the black man and his land (Egypt) was 
the cradle of rescue that rocked and nursed 
the Son of God in his first two years of 
life, when Herod's decree to destroy all 
children under two years of age was issued. 
It was known that the decree was issued 
for the express and only purpose of de- 
stroying the infant Christ, but God chose 
Egypt, the black man's land, as a haven 
of rest and safety during the life of the 
displeased and would-be infant murderer, 
Herod. (Matt., 2nd Chapter.) 

This might be the origin of that old, old 
saying, "Blood is thicker than water," for 
Jesus in going into Egypt, went among 
black women and men, who were the found- 
ers of the tribe from which he sprang. 

When God in His infinite wisdom. His 
great love, justice and mercy, and at His 

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own appointed time, summons mankind to 
take his rightful place in the wavering- 
human line to he rewarded for that small- 
est of virtues, in proportion as he for the 
greatest of virtues, will say to the black 
man, who will be found heading the line, 
''Well done, thou good and faithful black 
servant, thou. My instrument, the Father 
of Civilization." 



The End. 



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COMMENTS ON LECTURE TOURS 
OF THE WRITER. 

To Whom It May Concern: 

' ' I beg to say, after hearing Elder Webb 
on the subject, that the blood of the Negro 
coursed through the veins of Jesus and 
Solomon. I am frank to say I have seldom, 
if ever, enjoyed such an intellectual treat. 
The position he assumed as the subject 
of his lecture touching the Hametic blood 
and race is difficult and requires a prac- 
tical knowledge of Biblical and historical 
lore. But I am pleased to say that he not 
only shows himself an expert, but the 
master of the situation, and I commend him 
to the ministry and churches of our race of 
every denomination. Truly, 

''Bishop H. M. Turner.'' 



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COMMENT FROM ONE OF THE 

LEADING PAPERS OF THE 

WRITER'S HOME. 

' ' The evidence submitted by Elder Webb 
tending to prove that the Saviour of man- 
kind was a black man seems to be sufficient 
to put those who oppose the proposition 
upon their proof. Now that the chain of 
evidence presented by Mr. Webb appears 
so complete, it is strange that none of the 
delvers in the Biblical records have not 
advanced the sensational proposition be- 
fore. Not only was Christ a Negro, but it 
seems that Solomon, who has been held 
up through all of the ages as the personifi- 
cation of wisdom, had Ethiopian blood in 
his veins also.— Seattle Daily Times. 



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HENRY O. TANNER 

The World-Famous Afro-American Artisl 



Henry 0. Tanner is the world famous 
Afro- American artist. He is the oldest son 
of Bishop Tanner of the A. M. E. (;hnrch. 
He was born in Pittsburg, Penn., but was 
trained in the public schools of Phihidel- 
phia, to which place his parents moved soon 
after his birth. His first steps in his life 
work were taken in the art schools of Phila- 
delphia from which training he went to 
Paris where his genius developed and flow- 
ered in the studies of Benjamin Constant 
and Julien. In 1895 his "Sabot Maker," 
was shown in the salon exhibit and received 
friendly treatment from the French critics. 
Frenchmen, as a rule, are not too favorably 
inclined to the works of foreigners t\nd their 
appreciation of Tanner is truly signiiicant 
of the real value of .his work— a merit which 
puts it beyond the limitations of race and 
country. In 1896 he exhibited "Daniel in 
the Lion's Den," the first of a line of re- 
ligious works with which bis fame has been 
since connected. This picture received Hon- 
orable mention from the French Jury and 
was bought bv the Pennsylvania Academy. 

Mr. Tanner's jucture, "The Two Dis- 
ci l)les at the Tomb," was purchased by the 
diicago Art Institute for $1,600. 










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Paul ffiamr^ur^ 
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Afriran-Amrriran % 



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THE COLORED SOLDIERS 

(From Dunbar's ''Lyrics of Lowly Life.") 

If the muse were mine to tempt it 

And my feeble voice were strong, 
If my tongue were trained to measures, 

I would sing a stirring song. 
I would sing a song heroic 

Of those noble sons of Ham, 
Of the gallant colored soldiers 

Who fought for Uncle Sam ! 
In the early days you scorned them, 

And with many a flip and flout 
Said "These battles are the white man's, 

And the whites will fight them out." 
Up the hills you fought and faltered, 

In the vales you strove and bled, 
While your ears still heard the thunder 

Of the foes' advancing tread. 

Then distress fell on the nation, 

And the flag was drooping low; 
Should the dust pollute your banner? 

No! the nation shouted. No! 
So when War, in savage triumph, 

Spread abroad his funeral pall- 
Then you called the colored soldiers. 

And thev answered to vour call. 

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And like hounds unleashed and eager 

For the life blood of the prey, 
Sprung they forth and bore them bravely 

In the thickest of the fray, 
And where'er the fight was hottest, 

Wliere the bullets fastest fell, 
There they pressed unblanched and fearless 

At the very mouth of hell. 



Below are written some of the comments 
on his poetry and prose: 

Dr. Adams, editor of "The Advance," 
says: "Dunbar was a genius bound in 
ebony. ' ' 

Former President Theodore Roosevelt 
said : "I was a great admirer of his poetry 
and his prose." 



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p. KA ISAKA SEME 

A NATIVE BORN AFRICAN 

P. Ka Isaka Seme, who delivered such 
a wonderful oration on the subject, "The 
Regeneration of Africa/' which oration 
is reproduced from the Colored American 
Magazine of New York (June, 1906). This 
oration substantiates me in my article 
wherein I claim that the black man was the 
FATHER OF CIVILIZATION. 



The Regeneration of Africa 

Curtis Medals Oration, First Prize, April 5, 1906, Columbia University 

I HAVE chosen to speak to you on this 
occasion upon ''The Regeneration of 
Africa." I am an African, and I set 
my pride in my race over against a hos- 
tile public opinion. Men have tried to com- 
pare races on the basis of some equality. 
In all the works of nature, equality, if by it 
we mean identity, is an impossible dream ! 
Search the universe ! You will find no two 
units alike. The scientists tell us there are 
no two cells, no two atoms, identical. Na- 
ture has bestowed upon each a peculiar in- 
dividuality, an exclusive patent— from the 
great giants of the forest to the tenderest 
blade. Catch in your hand, if you please, 
the gentle flakes of snow. Each is a perfect 
gem, a new creation; it shines in its own 
glory— a work of art different from all of 
its aerial companions. Man, the crowning 
achievement of nature, defies analysis. He 
is a mystery through all ages and for all 
time. The races of mankind are composed 
of free and unique individuals. An attempt 
to compare them on the basis of equality 
can never be finally satisfactory. Each is 
self. My thesis stands on this truth; time 
has proved it. In all races, genius is like a 
spark, which, concealed in the bosom of a 



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flint, bursts forth at the summoning stroke. 
Tt may arise anywhere and in any race. 

I would ask you not to compare Africa to 
Europe or to any other continent. I make 
this request not from any fear that such 
comparison might bring humiliation upon 
Africa. The reason I have stated,— a com- 
mon standard is impossible! Come with 
me to the ancient capital of Egypt, Thebes, 
the city of one hundred gates. The gran- 
deur of its venerable ruins and the gigantic 
proportions of its architecture reduced to 
insignificance the boasted monuments of 
other nations. The pyramids of Egypt are 
structures to which the world presents noth- 
ing comparable. The mighty monuments 
seem to look with disdain on every other 
work of human art and to vie with nature 
herself. All the glory of Egj^pt belongs to 
Africa and her people. These monuments 
are the indestructible memorials of their 
great and original genius. It is not through 
Egypt alone that Africa claims such un- 
rivalled historic achievements. I could have 
spoken of the pyraimds of Ethiopia, which, 
though inferior in size to those of Egypt, 
far surpass them in architectural beauty; 
their sepulchres which evince the highest 
purity of taste, and of many prehistoric 
ruins in other parts of Africa. In such 



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ruins Africa is like the golden sun, that, 
having sunk beneath the western horizon, 
still plays upon the world which he sus- 
tained and enlightened in his career. 

Justly the world now demands — 
*'\A^iither is fled the visionary gleam, 
^^^lere is it now, the glory and the dream ? ' ' 

Oh, for that historian who, with the open 
pen of truth, will bring to Africa's claim 
the strength of written proof. He will tell 
of a race whose onward tide was often 
swelled wilih tears, but in whose heart bond- 
age has not quenched the fire of former 
years. He will write that in these later days 
when Earth's noble ones are named, she 
has a roll of honor too, of whom she is not 
ashamed. The giant is awakening! From 
the four corners of the earth Africa 's sons, 
who have been proved through fire and 
sword, are marching to the future's golden 
door bearing the records of deeds of valor 
done. 

Mr. Calhoun, I believe, was the most 
philosophical of all the slave-holders. He 
said once that if he could find a black man 
who could understand the Greek syntax, he 
would then consider their race human, and 
his attitude toward enslaving them would 
therefore change. "What might have been 
the sensation kindled by the Greek syntax 

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in the mind of the famous Southerner, I 
have so far been unable to discover ; but oh, 
I envy the moment that was lost ! And woe 
to the tongues that refused to tell the truth ! 
If any such were among the now living, I 
could show him among black men of pure 
African blood those who could repeat the 
Koran from memory, skilled in Latin, 
Greek and Hebrew,— Arabic and Chaldais 
—men great in wisdom and profound know- 
ledge—one professor of philosophy in a 
celebrated German university; one corre- 
sponding member of the French Academy 
of Sciences, who regularly transmitted to 
that society meteorological observations, 
and hydrographical journals and papers on 
botany and geology; another whom many 
ages call ''The Wise," whose authority Ma- 
hom.et himself frequently appealed to in the 
Koran in support of his own opinion— men 
of wealth and active benevolence, those 
whose distinguished talents and reputation 
have made them famous in the cabinet and 
in the field, officers of artillery in the great 
armies of Europe, generals and lieutenant 
generals in the armies of Peter the Great 
in Russia and Napoleon in France, presi- 
dents of free republics, kings of independ- 
ent nations which have burst their way to 
liberty by their own vigor. There are many 

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other Africans who have shown marks of 
genius and high character sufficient to re- 
deem their race from the charges which I 
am now considering. 

Ladies and gentlemen, the day of great 
exploring expeditions in Africa is over! 
Man knows his home now in a sense never 
known before. Many great and holy men 
have evinced a passion for the day you are 
now witnessing— their prophetic vision shot 
through many unborn centuries to this very 
hour. ''Men shall run to and fro," said 
Daniel, "and knowledge shall increase upon 
the earth. ' ' Oh, how true ! See the triumph 
of human genius today! Science has 
searched out the deep things of nature, 
surprised the secrets of the most distant 
stars, disentombed the memorials of ever- 
lasting hills, taught the lightning to speak, 
the vapors to toil and the winds to worship 
—spanned the sweeping rivers, tunneled 
the longest mountain range— made the 
world a vast whispering gallery, and has 
brought foreign nations into one civilized 
family. This all-powerful contact says even 
to the most backward race, you cannot re- 
main where you are, you cannot fall back 
you must advance! A great century has 
come upon us. No race possessing the in- 
herent capacity to survive can resist and 

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remain unaffected by this influence of con- 
tact and intercourse, the backward with the 
advanced. This influence constitutes the 
very essence of efficient progress and of 
civilization. 

From these heights of the twentieth cen- 
tury I again ask you to cast your eyes south 
of the Desert of Sahara. If you could go 
with me to the oppressed Congos and ask, 
what does it mean, that now, for liberty, 
they flght like men and die like martyrs ; if 
you would go with me to Bechuanaland, 
face their council of Headmen and ask what 
motives caused them recently to decree so 
emphatically that alcoholic drinks shall not 
enter their country— visit their king, Kha- 
ma, ask for what cause he leaves the gold 
and ivory palace of his ancestors, its moun- 
tain strongholds and all its august cere- 
mony, to wander daily from village to vil- 
lage through all his kingdom, without a 
guard or any decoration of his rank— a 
preacher of industry and education, and an 
apostle of the new order of things ; if you 
would ask Menelik what means this that 
Abvssinia is now looking across the ocean 
— oh, if you could read the letters that come 
to us from Zululand— you, too, would be 
convinced that the elevation of the African 
race is evidently a part of the new order of 



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things that belong to this new and powerful 
period. 

The African already recognizes his ano- 
malous position and desires a change. The 
brighter day is rising upon Africa. Al- 
ready I seem to see her chains dissolved, 
her desert plains red with harvest, her Ays- 
sinia and her Zululand the seats of science 
and religion, reflecting the glory of the ris- 
ing sun from the spires of their churches 
and universities. Her Congo and her Gam- 
bia whitened with commerce, her crowded 
cities sending forth the hum of business, 
and all her sons employed in advancing the 
victories of peace— greater and more abid- 
ing than the spoils of war. 

Yes, the regeneration of Africa belongs 
to this new and powerful period ! By this 
term regeneration I wish to be understood 
to mean the entrance into a new life, em- 
bracing the diverse phases of a higher, com- 
plex existence. The basic factor which as- 
sures their regeneration resides in the 
awakened race-consciousness. This gives 
them a clear perception of their elemental 
needs and of their undeveloped powers. It 
therefore must lead them to the attainment 
of that higher and advanced standard of 
life. 



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The African people, although not a 
strictly homogeneous race, possess a com- 
mon fundamental sentiment which is every- 
where manifest, crystalizing itself into one 
common controlling idea. Conflicts and 
strife are rapidly disappearing before the 
fusing force of this enlightened perception 
of the true intertribal relation, which rela- 
tion should subsist among a people with a 
common destiny. Agencies of a social, eco- 
nomic and religious advance tell of a new 
spirit which, acting as a leavening fer- 
ment, shall raise the anxious and aspiring 
mass to the level of their ancient glory. 
The ancestral greatness, the unimpaired 
genius, and the recuperative power of the 
race, its irrepressibility, which assures its 
permanence, constitute the African's great- 
est source of inspiration. He has refused 
to camp forever on the borders of the in- 
dustrial world ; having learned that knowl- 
edge is power, he is educating his children. 
You find them in Edinburgh, in Cambridge, 
and in the great schools of Germany. These 
return to their country like arrows, to drive 
darkness from the land. I hold that this 
industrial and educational initiative, and 
his untiring devotion to these activities 
must be regarded as positive evidences of 
this process of his regeneration. 

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The regeneration of Africa means that a 
new and unique civilization is soon to be 
added to the world. The African is not a 
proletarian in the world of science and art. 
He has precious creations of his own, of 
ivory, of copper and of gold, fine, plaited 
willow-ware and weapons of superior work- 
manship. Civilization resembles an organic 
being in its development— it is born, it 
perishes, and it can propogate itself. More 
particularly, it resembles a plant, it takes 
root in the teeming earth, and when the 
seeds fall in other soils new varieties sprout 
up. The most essential departure of this 
new civilization is that it shall be thorough- 
ly spiritual and humanistic— indeed a re- 
generation moral and eternal ! 

Africa! 

Like some great century plant that shall 

bloom 
In ages hence, we watch thee ; in our dream 
See in thy swamps the Prospero of our 

stream ; 
Thy doors unlocked, where knowledge in 

her tomb 
Hath lain innumerable years in gloom. 
Then shalt thou, waking with that morning 

gleam 
Shine as thy sister lands with equal beam. 

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